DSG Owners - We need your help!
Discussion
Hi Guys,
As I am sure alot of you are aware many people have been experiencing problem with their DSG boxes and its costing people who’s cars that are out of warranty a small fortune to get repaired.
VW UK/Audi UK only warrant the DSG box for a 3 year period, again I am sure alot of you are aware that VW of America have now increased the DSG warranty to 10 years / 100,000 miles, a group of us feel that VW UK / Audi UK should also increase UK DSG cars to 10 years /100,00 miles.
To aid our protest we have set up a website for DSG owners to register their DSG faults, once we have a large amount of supports and registered faults we shall approach VW UK/Audi UK about increasing the warranty, if this fails we shall contact Watchdog or a national paper for further help.
The website is www.DSGwoes.co.uk, please sign up and register your faults. If you could spread the word about the site with other DSG owners this would also be appreciated.
It’s unfair that VW/Audi should expect their customers take the cost of repair when they themselves should have designed the DSG box to last the life of a car! Make a stand with us!
Many thanks
Knobby.
As I am sure alot of you are aware many people have been experiencing problem with their DSG boxes and its costing people who’s cars that are out of warranty a small fortune to get repaired.
VW UK/Audi UK only warrant the DSG box for a 3 year period, again I am sure alot of you are aware that VW of America have now increased the DSG warranty to 10 years / 100,000 miles, a group of us feel that VW UK / Audi UK should also increase UK DSG cars to 10 years /100,00 miles.
To aid our protest we have set up a website for DSG owners to register their DSG faults, once we have a large amount of supports and registered faults we shall approach VW UK/Audi UK about increasing the warranty, if this fails we shall contact Watchdog or a national paper for further help.
The website is www.DSGwoes.co.uk, please sign up and register your faults. If you could spread the word about the site with other DSG owners this would also be appreciated.
It’s unfair that VW/Audi should expect their customers take the cost of repair when they themselves should have designed the DSG box to last the life of a car! Make a stand with us!
Many thanks
Knobby.
I'm just about to dispose of a '06 Passat DSG with 82K on it, buying a new Passat CC DSG.
The old passat, which we have had since new, has been near faultless; what are the problems with DSG? (link won't work for me)
The old passat, which we have had since new, has been near faultless; what are the problems with DSG? (link won't work for me)
Edited by DSM2 on Wednesday 27th January 10:36
Edited by DSM2 on Wednesday 27th January 10:37
Link doesn't work. 
My DSG has been OK, had a couple of occasions where from startup the shifting was erratic, ending in neutral, both while the car was in warranty but dealer could find nothing wrong. Shortly after the battery failed and since replacement it's been OK so I wonder if that was the problem?
Anyway as the owner of a 6yr old DSG car I'd be happy to see a 10yr warranty (I already had the 'stretched' timing chain issue) but I doubt Audi/VW UK will do it - they'll do it in the US because if not Americans will stop buying their cars en masse and that would hurt them but I don't believe UK buyers would make such a stand as most of them get rid of the car before the warranty expires anyway and car 'fashion' is more important here than principles.
But fix the site and I'll gladly sign up to such a campaign.
My DSG has been OK, had a couple of occasions where from startup the shifting was erratic, ending in neutral, both while the car was in warranty but dealer could find nothing wrong. Shortly after the battery failed and since replacement it's been OK so I wonder if that was the problem?
Anyway as the owner of a 6yr old DSG car I'd be happy to see a 10yr warranty (I already had the 'stretched' timing chain issue) but I doubt Audi/VW UK will do it - they'll do it in the US because if not Americans will stop buying their cars en masse and that would hurt them but I don't believe UK buyers would make such a stand as most of them get rid of the car before the warranty expires anyway and car 'fashion' is more important here than principles.
But fix the site and I'll gladly sign up to such a campaign.
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